That Pokemon pricing might be eye-watering, but there’s never been a better time to love Lego and gaming – in pretty much any price bracket
It’s quite the time to be somebody who loves both video games and Lego. In a sense, it perhaps shouldn’t be surprising that the worlds of digital gaming and Danish brick-building toys are colliding so thoroughly – the venn diagram of the audiences of each is frequently simply a circle. In fact, it’s sort of surprising that it took this long. Lego welcomed its first licensed brand sets in 1999 with the arrival of Star Wars – and by that logic, it took about a quarter century for video game-inspired builds to really take hold in the Lego space.
